IDX Systems Corporation (IDX) was a

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technology company that formerly had headquarters in

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. It was founded in 1969 by

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, Richard Tarrant, and Paul Egerman. IDX was acquired by

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and incorporated into its

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business unit in 2006. A portion of the former IDX business (along with other software assets) were sold by GE to private equity firm

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in 2018. The resulting company was named Virence. In 2019, Virence was merged into

athenahealth Athenahealth (stylized as athenahealth) is a private American company that provides network-enabled services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps in the United States. The company was founded in 1997 in San Diego and is now headquarte ...

Products

Prior to its acquisition by

, IDX had four primary lines of business: Flowcast was the original application produced by IDX. It is a revenue cycle management system for medium to large physician groups, hospitals, and integrated delivery networks, and includes scheduling, billing and collections modules. It is written in the

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programming language and runs on

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Caché. Flowcast was renamed Centricity Business after the product was acquired by GE Healthcare. The product is now owned by athenahealth. Groupcast was a financial management system for smaller-to-medium size provider groups. It was renamed Centricity Group Management after being acquired by GE Healthcare. The product is now owned by athenahealth. Carecast was a system used primarily by large hospitals and medical centers as an integrated clinical and financial application. Known as "Lastword" before IDX re-branded it, the system was developed in the 1980s by

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-based PHAMIS, Inc., a company acquired by IDX in 1997. Carecast also came in a regionalized version currently used at the

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in London. The main Carecast code-base is written in

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, TAL, C and

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and runs on Tandem/NonStop

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hardware. Upon acquisition by GE Healthcare, it was renamed Centricity Enterprise. In 2015, GE Healthcare announced it would sunset the Centricity Enterprise product. Imagecast was a radiology information system which enables "filmless" radiology image workflow. It is now marketed and supported by GE as Centricity RIS-IC.

GE buyout

On September 29, 2005,

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division announced it would acquire IDX for US$44 a share. The deal was valued at US$1.2 billion. The purchase was finalized January 4, 2006.

References

External links

General Electric's website
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